July 30, 2008 Karadzic in UN custody in Netherlands Play video

(NECN: The Hague, Netherlands) - Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is now in the custody of the International Criminal Tribunal For the Former Yugoslavia.

After 13 years at large, he arrived at the Netherlands early this morning.

He has been transfered to the United Nations detention center in the Hague.

He faces charges of genocide against Muslims and Croats during the Balkan wars of the 1990s.

"The arrest of Radovan Karadzic is immensely important for the victims who had to wait far too long for this day," prosecutor Serge Brammertz said. It is also important showed "that there is no alternative to the arrest of war criminals and that there can be no safe haven for fugitives."

Prosecutors allege Karadzic masterminded atrocities including the 1995 massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica, the deadly siege of Sarajevo, and the detention of tens of thousands of people in 20 concentration camps where many were tortured, starved and sexually abused.

The court announced he will be summoned before a judge Thursday afternoon, where he will be asked to enter pleas on each of the 11 counts against him, including genocide, extermination and persecution.